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The Syria Files

Thursday 5 July 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria Files – more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. This extraordinary data set derives from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names, including those of the Ministries of Presidential Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Information, Transport and Culture. At this time Syria is undergoing a violent internal conflict that has killed between 6,000 and 15,000 people in the last 18 months. The Syria Files shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, but they also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another.

Areas with high weigh of regional development. Innovate small loans projects. Encourage and provide more incentives for investment in the private sector. Human development for communities and human agglomerations (rural and urban) that have low rates of development (standard of living, food security, standard of health care, individuals with special needs, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, the elderly people ..., communities in remote areas or difficult to reach from urban centers, agglomerations with low public health facilities, public education and water supply ...). Direct more attention towards seasonal and unskilled workers. Increase education opportunities and enrollment rates of both genders in schools and assure their education continuity.

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2. Programs and Projects of Institutional Development and Modernization

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Improve coordination between ministries and institutions.

3. Economic Projects and Programs
Development of labour laws. Development of infrastructure (telecommunication, post services and networks, airports, ports and railways). Focus on employment in the fields of labour-intensive industries, agriculture and services. Set up social security networks. Enhance the quality of education and activate training programs for youth and link wages and incentives with productivity. Loans provision for creative young people.

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4. Agriculture

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Food security and diversification of agricultural map towards the most productive crops. Modern Irrigation Project. Private sector participation to provide the necessary investment resources for large agricultural projects. Encourage the establishment of marketing companies and institutions, and ensure the continuous amendments of some laws and legislations especially those related to the reduction of real-estate properties fragmentation and set up the executive instructions and follow up their implementations.

6. Irrigation

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Develop comprehensive plan and national management as well as monitoring system for water resources. Capacity building of water sector to be in line with the expected development in this field. Activate scientific research and establish advanced centers for the research of water usage.

5. Information and Communication Technology

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Government adaptation of the knowledge society and e-government.

7. Projects and Programs of Human Development
Social security networks such as poverty reduction program and micro-finance program especially in agriculture, tourism and services. Management of price support mechanism and address its effects. Promote investment in education, health and social services in general as well as infrastructure such as electricity, water, roads and housing. Improve the quality of drinking water. Study the impact of economic transition on the marginal groups and communities with low living conditions and arrange their participation in the development process and labor market.

8. Balanced Development Projects and Programs

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Promote decentralization and partnership and rationalize the distribution of local budgets according to the development indicators of each governate. Direct and motivate investment on sectorial and geographical basis. Development planning on the governatesâ€™ level. Programs and projects of population balanced re-distribution based on inhabitantsâ€™ intensity and available resources. Reduce the dropout rates from basic education. 2

3. Irrigation
Address inundation and agrarian reform of Seha plains with the provision of water reservoir (loan). Agrarian reform project of the southern plains in Aleppo. Agrarian reform project of the eighth area in Deir Zour. Regulation of Orontes banks (Hama, local administration). Irrigation networks (especially Tigris, Hasakeh).

4. Agriculture
Consultancy support to define the subsidiesâ€™ methods of agricultural production and the granting mechanism to the beneficiaries. Consultancy support to build comprehensive information system of local and external markets as well as products, exports and imports that will help to move these markets to the electronic commerce. Consultancy support to the development mechanism of agricultural extension as well as the relation between research and guidance. Consultancy support to develop the testing mechanism of biological pesticides. Consultancy support to climate change and its impact on the agricultural development in Syria. Consultancy support to evaluate the role of agricultural research in agricultural development in Syria. Consultancy support to develop Ghab Area. 2nd Phase: The institutional support project of organic agriculture in Syria. 4

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Improve the nutrition value of plant residues and their usage as animal feeds and transfer this technology to the livestock breeders. Build early warning system for drought. Crops cultivation that is tolerant to drought. Study the medicinal and aromatic plants in Syria and identify the effective components. Cultivate vegetables and improve the local varieties. Protect, save and use plant genetic resources. Discern genetically modified agricultural products. Discern the remaining effect (medicine, hormones, chemicals and toxins) in animal products. Control and monitor transmitted diseases across borders (Rinderpest â€“ Bird flu). Eradication of Brucellosis. Develop agricultural extension in the field of animal health. Comprehensive project to build the capacities and qualifications of the technical staff including providing high studies scholarships (MSc, PhD) as well as long and short training courses.

5. Electricity

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Power plants on dams in Hasakeh. Hydroelectric station on the Balikh resources in Raqqa

6. Land Administration
Capacity building of the General Establishment of Surveying to create the national digital map.

7. Education

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Provide schools with necessary equipments especially in the north eastern area and Daraâ€™a.

Objective:
Setting the strategy of foreign aid coordination to assure its proper use. Following up the findings of the two previous aid coordination meetings held with donors. Preparing for a high level meeting which will be held the next year with the participation of the heads of diplomatic missions, international organizations operating in Syria and donors that donâ€™t have representatives in Syria.